Comment by dmitriid | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dmitriid | Hacker News Reader

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The New York times consistently creates amazing online experiences using current tech, and the result requires fewer resources, is more accessible, and works significantly faster than any project of any people that whine about Safari on Reddit and HN.

Just a few examples:

- 50 Reasons to Love Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/20/arts/music/jo...

- A 3-D Tour of How the Senate Was Transformed for the Impeachment Trial https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/23/us/politics/i...

- The Climate Change Pledges Are In. Will They Fix Anything? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/23/world/carbon-...

And so on and so on. Can't quickly find the biggest and the most complex ones, but they are there.

A bit off topic, but I felt compelled to comment, because I have strong feelings about these "news experiences" on NYT and other websites (I think Wired has a few).

I think they are beautiful to look at, and perhaps they are smartly built. But personally they make it so much harder for me to absorb the actual content. In the climate change example, the text is large and framed in isolation from the other elements, to the point that it's difficult for me to parse the overall context of the article. The Joni Mitchell article is a bit better, but the text on the right is squished to the point that it feels stressful to read. I understand the goal is to frame the image on the left, but it feels like overkill.

When it comes to news I prefer the content to malleable and customizable (accessibility, content size, color pallet). I don't mind that these experiments exist, just pointing out that they are a bit anti-web in my opinion.

Yeah, their news are just text and images. But then they have these larger features that live at `/interactive/`. But I can agree with you that the interactivity can interfere with you trying to understand what's being presented.

I would love to be able to see these…if only there want a pay wall. Now reader mode takes all that beauty and effort out.

Interestingly enough, they were available to me. I wonder if I haven't hit the "you've reached the limit of free articles on NY Times"...

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